Walter Steiger “Ishi” wedge for Albert Kriemler’s Akris Spring/Summer 2011 collection. The wedge is inspired by Kriemler’s recent trip to Japan, as “ishi” is Japanese for “stone”. Walter Steiger was inspired by “the sensation of standing without shoes on a round stone”.

The lobster dress was infamously worn by Wallis Simpson, the Duke of Windsor’s wife, who was the reason he was no longer King of the United Kingdom. She was photographed in the dress by famed photographer Cecil Beaton.

The placement of the lobster on the ‘virginal’ white dress has always caused a stir for it’s sexual innuendo, and when worn by a woman many blamed for seducing, latching on to, and not letting go of the future King, the dress became symbolic for many and as infamous as she had become.

It is rumored that Dali wanted to apply real mayonnaise to the lobster on the dress but that Schiaparelli objected.